I challenge you to try to live without a car anywhere outside of the NE. Cities just aren’t built for it and you can’t just redesign them overnight. Take the Texas Triangle for example, 21 million people and it’s extremely sprawling. Bus service in a lot of places are lacking and will take you 40-60 minutes at a minimum. You just plain can’t survive in a lot of places. So what will raising car prices 25% do except put much more of a burden on the people who actually need it.
There are still plenty of existing cars, and cities are constantly changing and renewing themselves. This would be one of the gentler ways of transitioning over time to a better, car-light future by adjusting individual incentives.
I challenge you to try to live without a car anywhere outside of the NE. Cities just aren’t built for it and you can’t just redesign them overnight. Take the Texas Triangle for example, 21 million people and it’s extremely sprawling. Bus service in a lot of places are lacking and will take you 40-60 minutes at a minimum. You just plain can’t survive in a lot of places. So what will raising car prices 25% do except put much more of a burden on the people who actually need it.
There are still plenty of existing cars, and cities are constantly changing and renewing themselves. This would be one of the gentler ways of transitioning over time to a better, car-light future by adjusting individual incentives.